Note 86 — Chapter IX
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M. van Berchem describes some curious sun-dials in his Notes d’Archéologie arabe (1892), 13-18. One was set up in the mosque of Ibn-Tulún in 696 (1296) by Lagín; another may still be seen in the mosque of Kusún, and is dated 785 (1383); a third exists in the tomb-mosque of Inál, and bears the date 871 (1466).